Added water from the sprinklers and a bigger mess!!! — Witness on Seen & Heard: Chalk Overload in Duane Park

No mistake. I saw the pails and children pre dumping. Not sure what the school was trying to teach these children...obviously not about cleaning up. I watched this morning as people tried to wade through the mess. Not sure how we are to clean it up. — Witness on Seen & Heard: Chalk Overload in Duane Park

Sorry but they did. I saw the buckets before they were dumped all over the park. Not sure how we clean it up. Not sure what the school's teaching experience was trying to demonstrate but clearly not cleaning up was a part of it. — Witness on Seen & Heard: Chalk Overload in Duane Park

New York Post should correct their article " shouting slurs" you mean " shouting racial slurs". it works both ways. Racial incident should be on the news. — Native on In the News: Woman Attacked With Metal Box

No mistake - several pails of chalk powder and two rounds of preschoolers makes quite a mess... — Unmistaken on Seen & Heard: Chalk Overload in Duane Park

Now why would they do that? The current trend seems to be to immediately devolve to ad hominem attacks. — Makes You Go Hmmm.... on Seen & Heard: Chalk Overload in Duane Park

Same Leonard street all placards all day they even park them unused on weekends like leonard street is their personal parking lot. I can’t get deliveries or pickups for my business it’s very difficult I’ve been told it’s all city workers and FBI cars and the police won’t do anything. There was one car with fbi placard for months in front of my building never moved. I finally called the fbi and they actually said the agent was on assignment and they moved it but it took at least two months. — Tino on An Attempt at Placard Reform

Instead of calling someone a moron, how about "the reader is clearly mistaken"? — George on Seen & Heard: Chalk Overload in Duane Park

The physical address is O.K. Uniforms, 253 Church Street, regards, Sonia — Sonia F. Stock on Where in Tribeca…?

HI Erik, this is in the Uniform Store on Church Street, regards, Sonia Stock — Sonia F. Stock on Where in Tribeca…?

I’m sorry but the reader is clearly a moron. Looking at the pictures, it’s clear that kids didnt do that. It’s completely blanketed, which requires tools and materials. Probably the work of construction crews hired by the city. Does he/she think that the school blows their entire budget on chalk lol?!? Side note, the same thing happened at Zucotti Park a week or so ago. — Anna on Seen & Heard: Chalk Overload in Duane Park

As long as it is not done by the same crew that redid northern Greenwich street a few years back- it is now in worse condition than most remaining "original" cobble stone streets like Vestry. — Robert Ripps on Seen & Heard: Gitano Is Coming Along

Wonder if Abramcyk will put a bouncer outside like he did with SuperLinda. — Matt on Seen & Heard: Plywood Down at Summer Day Café

DOH's records of drinking water tanks are sufficiently unreliable that the following is posted in a FAQ on their website (and, I understand, in notices mailed to owners and managing agents): "My building does not have a drinking water tank but received a reminder from the Department about performing an annual inspection. What should I do? "If your building does not have a tank used to hold drinking water but received a reminder from the Department, the owner or a representative should notify the Department. There are two ways to do this. The first is to use the online Water Tank Inspection Reporting application here (https://a816healthpsi.nyc.gov/OnlineRegistration). The second is to send a letter to the Department. The letter should include the building address, the BIN, contact information for the building owner (including address, email and phone number) and a statement that the building’s water supply system does not include a tank. It should be mailed to: NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Office of Public Health Engineering Water Tank Inspection Reporting 42-09 28th Street, 14th Floor Long Island City, NY 11101-4132 " — James on In the News: Filthy Water Towers

LOL! — Will Meyerhofer on Seen & Heard: Gitano Is Coming Along

Neighbors — Adam on Seen & Heard: Plywood Down at Summer Day Café

the point is that they are going to build above the 120 foot zoned allotment. — safe as milk on Battle for the Heart of the Seaport

Who cares if construction before 7 am is kosher or not? — Alex on Seen & Heard: Plywood Down at Summer Day Café

Yea, an ugly parking lot in the middle of the financial district is better than development. What are you smoking? — Christian on Battle for the Heart of the Seaport

live across from it and dont' want to see a building will still like to see the bridge and seaport. enough with the building!!!! — Native on Battle for the Heart of the Seaport

When asked for further comment the fox said, "the chickens will do just fine, no need for any pesky oversight, we've got this covered already." — steve on In the News: The NYPD Opposes Placard Reform

Not really ruining anything since it is a parking lot, but I do hope that it is kept to a minimum height. I love skyscrapers, but when everything is just tall (like midtown), there is no rhythm to the city. Although I know nothing about real estate returns, a collection of townhouses would seem to have a better air of exclusivity while keeping in scale to the neighborhood. — mruptight on Battle for the Heart of the Seaport

Favorite placard seen in FiDi last fall was on a late model Bently Convertible with PA plates using an NYPD detective's placard parked in a commercial delivery zone. — steve on An Attempt at Placard Reform

Placards for residents. Everybody can park except the people who live here. Our quality of life is deteriorated by an insane amount of factors downtown. — Placards for Residents on An Attempt at Placard Reform

Eric -- You ask, "Will NYPD ever really enforce placard reforms that necessarily include its own abuses?" The answer is, of course, No ... not until the public demands that the mayor act. While we can all admire CM Chin's and her council colleagues' brave words, Streetsblog has this reality check: "In testimony before the City Council transportation committee today [June12], NYPD Director of Legislative Affairs Oleg Chernyavsky batted away efforts by city council members to reform the system. Intro 942, proposed by Council Member Peter Koo, would task the Department of Transportation with coming up with a “comprehensive plan” for the distribution and use of city-issued placards. “The department believes in reforming the parking permit system,” Chernyavsky said. “However, we are concerned with this legislation as it leaves the determination of how many parking permits the NYPD requires to another agency.” He expressed further “concern” that such a plan would limit the number of permits the NYPD can issue. "Chernyavsky also opposed the three other placard-related bills on the agenda. "Intro. 927, which would create an electronic tracking system for city-issued placards, would pose a “security” risk by putting NYPD information in a database outside of the agency’s control. It would also entail “a significant amount of work,” he said. Intro. 932, which would revoke the placard of any driver caught misusing their placard three or more times in a year, should be “best left to the agency’s internal disciplinary process.” And Intro. 314, requiring NYPD to compile quarterly placard abuse reports “cannot currently be accomplished with our existing capabilities.” "In other words, leave everything up to NYPD, and don’t expect any transparency whatsoever. "Neither Chernyavsky nor NYPD Traffic Enforcement District Commanding Officer Deputy Chief Michael Pilecki offered insight into how the bills could be amended to support their purported goal of placard reform." The full Streetsblog post is here: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2018/06/12/there-is-no-placard-crackdown-and-thats-how-nypd-wants-it/. But the headline in the link says it all. — Charles Komanoff on An Attempt at Placard Reform